But about 1 in 3 football players, or 34%, who are still alive have perceived CTE, according to astudyinJAMA Neurology. Those players were also 5 times as likely to report suicidal thoughts than those who didn’t think they had CTE. ...
The researchers analysed data from the Football Players Health Study, a longitudinal cohort of former professionals who played after 1960, when hard plastic helmets were largely adopted. Of the 4180 players who had enrolled in that study by late 鈥...
The prevalence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players is shockingly high according to a paper published online in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) on July 25th (1). The paper describes autopsy results from a convenience sample of 202 deceased footbal...
A post mortem study of 180 former football players who donated their brains supports previous findings that a greater amount of phosphorylated tau protein in the brain is associated with dementia and duration of play. The research advances the field with findings of a direct association between seve...
A third of former professional players believe they have football-related brain damage, according to the largest study of its kind involving more than 2,000 players who were in the NFL between 1960 and 2020. "Most had cognitive symptoms," said Rachel Grashow, who conducted the research for ...
it is impossible to confirm a CTE diagnosis in a living individual, yet prior research by co-lead author Rachel Grashow, Ph.D., M.S., and colleagues from the Football Players Health Study (FPHS) at Harvard University showed that 3 in every 100 formerfootballplayers report being diagnosed ...
But while most research has focused on the risk of brain damage among professional athletes, the latest analysis reveals “that CTE can begin very early, as early as 17 years, and that it can develop in amateur soccer, rugby, ice hockey and football players, and amateur wrestlers,” McKee ...
For the new study, researchers used a PET scan -- an imaging test that uses radioactive tracer dye to show how organs and tissues are working -- to try and identify abnormal tau proteins in five living football players over the age of 45: a linebacker, quarterback, guard, center and def...
CTE has been found in the brains of teens and adults who sustained repeated head injuries, even in those who were not diagnosed with concussion, the study authors noted. But the mechanisms behind CTE have been unclear. NFL players with CTE14 photos ...
In a sample of 266 deceased former amateur andprofessional football players, the study found that the risk of developing CTE increased by 30 percent per year played, meaning that for each 2.6 additional years of football played, the odds of developing CTE doubled. Among those with CTE, for ...